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Due to recent complaints about noise levels library staff will now be practicing their finely honed shushing skills on level 4 of the Biological Sciences Library. If you wish to make noise in the library please do so on one of the other floors, e.g. levels 1 to 3, although preferably not too much noise. |
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For any student especially tuned into the inner workings of the library, at last count there were 3 of you, you may well have noticed a vast increase in the amount of popular books now available as holdable items instead of short term loans. This is because we are looking at whether or not having more holdable loans is better and provides easier access to items rather than short term loans. This means more general loans and fewer 3 and 7 day loans. We hope this change will allow students not desperately in need of a textbook to have more copies they can place holds on therefore lowering the size of some of the hold queues for our books while those students who do desperately need a textbook should still be able to come in to the library and find a 3 or 7 day copy on the shelf. What the codes mean: 3 and 7 day loans: can only have the item for 3 or 7 days, cannot place a hold on the book, cannot renew the book, book cannot be recalled, $2.00 a day late fees for the first 4 days which becomes $4.00 a day after that. General loans: can have the item for 14 days, if undergraduate, 28 if postgraduate or staff, can have for a semester loan on request, can place a hold on the book, can renew the book, book can be recalled, $0.20 a day late fees which becomes $0.95 a day if the item has been recalled. |
| Please let us know if you like the idea of more general loans, hate it or if it is completely irrelevant as you get all your information from the Internet. |
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Ever wonder why you can never find that text book you are after? It is probably because someone else has it out. Listed below are our top 5 most borrowed books for this year. As can be seen some of these books are incredibly popular and have been in and out of the library more often than a Post Grad who has just lost all of their thesis references. Biology / Neil A. Campbell. - QH308.2 .C34 2006 - borrowed 961 times. While we have plenty of copies of these books if there is a book that you feel the library should buy or does not have enough copies of then feel free to suggest a purchase using the online suggestion form. Happy reading. |
